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The sermon teaches that the glorified Christ of Revelation is the same incarnate Savior who suffered for sinners, and that His humiliation does not diminish but reveals His divine identity and saving purpose. Christ is eternal, royally and priestly clothed, perfectly aware of His church’s condition, and actively preserves His ministers and people. The church should therefore expect trials without despair, trust the penetrating power of Christ’s Word, and pray for faithful ministry. Believers are called to respond to Christ’s radiant glory with reverent worship, humility, confidence, and hope.
Theological center: Jesus Christ is the eternal Son who, though once crucified in humiliation, now reigns glorified as King and Priest over and within His church.
Applications: Grow in knowledge of Christ · Worship Christ’s royal priesthood · Expect and endure trials · Pray for Christ’s ministers
Primary texts: Revelation 1:12-17 · Hebrews 13:8 · John 1:1
“And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks; and in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle. His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; and his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength. And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead.” Revelation 1:12-17 THE Lord Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Having neither beginning of days, nor end of years, He is a priest forever after the order of Melchisedec. But the views which His people have of Him are extremely varied. According to our progress in grace, will be the standpoint from which we view the Savior, and according to the position from which we look at Him, will be what we see of Him. Christ is the same, but believers do not all see Him in the same clear light, nor do they all approach to the same nearness of fellowship. Some only know His offices, others only admire His character, far fewer commune with His person. But there be some who have advanced still further, who have come to feel the unity of all the church with the person of Christ Jesus their Lord. Under the Old Testament, the lesson to be taught was the same, but the capacity of the learners differed, and hence the mode of teaching the lesson differed also. A poor man, under the Jewish dispensation, was the type of an uninstructed Christian, the rich man was the picture of the well-taught believer. Now, the poor Jew brought a turtle dove or two young pigeons (Lev 1:14-17). The necks of these were wrung and they were offered. The poor man in that was only taught this lesson, that it was only by death and blood that his sin could be put away. The richer Israelite who had it within his power brought a bullock (Lev 1:3-9). This bullock was not only slain, but it had to be cut in pieces. The legs, the fat, the innards were washed in water, and all these were laid in special order upon the altar, to teach him, even as Christ now teaches the intelligent and instructed believer, that there is within the mere act of bloodshedding an order and a fullness of wisdom which only advanced believers can perceive. The scapegoat taught one truth, the paschal lamb another. The showbread set forth one lesson…